If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw… — Andrew Gillum Copy Share Image
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment [limiting the presidency to two terms] was a mistake. Shouldn't the people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II.… — William Sealy Gosset Copy Share Image
Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain… — Donald Calne Copy Share Image
I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well… — Niki Lauda Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image